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LISPy things you can do in 64K bytes of core (2019)


where "in 64K bytes" shall mean 64K bytes for the LISP system, the runtime stack, and the cons pool! This is the amount of space your LISP system would get on a basic DEC PDP-11 or in a tiny-model PCDOS program. It is probably a little less space than the first implementations of LISP could use.

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